Relationship dossier
Cuba
Honduras
Relationship assessment
Cuba–Honduras ties combine renewed health cooperation with a history of political shifts and interruption.
Cuba toward Honduras
+30Cuba provided medical personnel to Honduras under a bilateral health cooperation arrangement, with Cuban physicians beginning work in the country in 2024. Cuba also participated in the Cuba-backed ALBA framework with Honduras during Honduras’s membership.
Honduras toward Cuba
+30Honduras joined ALBA in 2008, supporting a period of closer political cooperation with Cuba, then withdrew in 2010. Honduras later agreed to receive Cuban medical personnel under a bilateral health cooperation arrangement.
Overall relationship
+25The relationship has included concrete political alignment through ALBA and renewed practical cooperation in health services. Honduras’s withdrawal from ALBA and earlier political ruptures indicate that cooperation has been subject to shifts in Honduran policy rather than forming an uninterrupted partnership.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Cuba and Honduras have had periods of political cooperation, including Honduras’s participation in the Cuba-backed ALBA alliance from 2008 until its withdrawal in 2010. More recently, the governments agreed to Cuban medical cooperation in Honduras, and Cuban physicians began working there in 2024. The relationship has also been affected by political ruptures and shifts in Honduran foreign policy.
Areas of tension
- Honduras withdrew from ALBA in 2010, ending its participation in a Cuba-backed regional alliance.
- Political rupture in Honduras following the 2009 coup disrupted the period of closer cooperation with Cuba.
Key developments
Honduras joined the Cuba-backed ALBA alliance.
Honduras withdrew from ALBA.
The governments agreed to Cuban medical cooperation in Honduras.
Cuban physicians began working in Honduras under the health cooperation arrangement.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and duration of the Cuban medical cooperation agreement are unclear.
- The extent of continuing bilateral cooperation beyond health services is uncertain.